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polydeistic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English deist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English deistic English polydeistic From poly- + deistic.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to polydeism.
   • Two women-led religions, the Shakers and Christian Science, do not fit this polydeistic pattern. 1999, Susan Sered, Women of the Sacred Groves: Divine Priestesses of Okinawa, page 62:
   • We must make selections on sound criteria from the works of the authors of our Renaissance for the different categories of schools and the public, eliminating the negative passages without hesitation, for if you give the children of the 8-year schools poems and writings of an author of our Renaissance in which he speaks of God, and on the other hand you praise this author highly, then you have also exalted his idealist, deistic or polydeistic philosophy. 1974, Enver Hoxha, Selected Works, page 366:

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polydeistically